This is a great idea. I’m all for the public’s having a better understanding of the Qur’an. Nihad Awad of Hamas-linked CAIR lists a few of the Qur’an verses about Islam’s view of Jews and Judaism that people will encounter in their free Qur’an, but he left out a few. Here they are, from the translation (by Muhammad Asad) that CAIR is giving out. Don’t thank me, Nihad. I’m happy to help.

2:65 Allah transforms disobedient Jews into apes

“For you are well aware of those from among you who profaned the Sabbath, whereupon We said unto them, “Be as apes despicable!”

2:89 Unbelievers, particularly Jews, are accursed

“And whenever there came unto them a [new] revelation from God, confirming the truth already in their possession – and [bear in mind that] aforetime they used to pray for victory over those who were bent on denying the truth -: whenever there came unto them something which they recognized [as the truth], they would deny it. And God’s rejection is the due of all who deny the truth.”

3:110-112 Muslims are the best of people, Jews have earned Allah’s anger

“You are indeed the best community that has ever been brought forth for [the good of] mankind: you enjoin the doing of what is right and forbid the doing of what is wrong, and you believe in God. Now if the followers of earlier revelation had attained to [this kind of] faith, it would have been for their own good; [but only few] among them are believers, while most of them are iniquitous: [but] these can never inflict more than a passing hurt on you; and if they fight against you, they will turn their backs upon you [in flight], and will not be succoured. Overshadowed by ignominy are they wherever they may be, save [when they bind themselves again] in a bond with God and a bond with men; for they have earned the burden of God’s condemnation, and are overshadowed by humiliation: all this [has befallen them] because they persisted in denying the truth of God’s messages and in slaying the prophets against all right: all this, because they rebelled [against God], and persisted in transgressing the bounds of what is right.”

3:181-182 Jews are bound for hell

“God has indeed heard the saying of those who said, ‘Behold, God is poor while we are rich!’ We shall record what they have said, as well as their slaying of prophets against all right, and We shall say [unto them on Judgment Day]: ‘Taste suffering through fire in return for what your own hands have wrought – for never does God do the least wrong to His creatures!'”

4:160-161 Jews do evil, turn people away from Allah

“So, then, for the wickedness committed by those who followed the Jewish faith did We deny unto them certain of the good things of life which [aforetime] had been allowed to them;174 and [We did this] for their having so often turned away from the path of God, and [for] their taking usury – although it had been forbidden to them, and their wrongful devouring of other people’s possessions. And for those from among them who [continue to] deny the truth We have readied grievous suffering.”

5:41 Jews listen to falsehood and pervert the meaning of their Scriptures

“O Apostle! Be not grieved by those who vie with one another in denying the truth: such as those who say with their mouths, ‘We believe,’ the while their hearts do not believe; and such of the Jewish faith as eagerly listen to any falsehood, eagerly listen to other people without having come to thee [for enlightenment]. They distort the meaning of the [revealed] words, taking them out of their context, saying [to themselves], ‘If such-and-such [teaching] is vouchsafed unto you, accept it; but if it is not vouchsafed unto you, be on your guard!'”

5:51 Don’t take Jews and Christians as friends and allies

“O you who have attained to faith! Do not take the Jews and the Christians for your allies: they are but allies of one another – and whoever of you allies himself with them becomes, verily, one of them; behold, God does not guide such evildoers.”

5:59-60 Jews cursed, made into apes and swine

“Say: ‘O followers of earlier revelation! Do you find fault with us for no other reason than that we believe in God [alone], and in that which He has bestowed from on high upon us as well as that which He has bestowed aforetime? – or [is it only] because most of you are iniquitous?’ Say: ‘Shall I tell you who, in the sight of God, deserves a yet worse retribution than these? They whom God has rejected and whom He has condemned, and whom He has turned into apes and swine because they worshipped the powers of evil: these are yet worse in station, and farther astray from the right path [than the mockers].'”

5:64 Jews accursed

“And the Jews say, ‘God’s hand is shackled!’ It is their own hands that are shackled; and rejected [by God] are they because of this their assertion. Nay, but wide are His hands stretched out: He dispenses [bounty] as He wills. But all that has been bestowed from on high upon thee [O Prophet] by thy Sustainer is bound to make many of them yet more stubborn in their overweening arrogance and in their denial of the truth.”

5:82 Jews most hostile to the Muslims

“Thou wilt surely find that, of all people, the most hostile to those who believe [in this divine writ] are the Jews as well as those who are bent on ascribing divinity to aught beside God.”

6:91 Jews deny, conceal divine revelations

“For, no true understanding of God have they when they say, ‘Never has God revealed anything unto man.’ Say: ‘Who has bestowed from on high the divine writ which Moses brought unto men as a light and a guidance, [and] which you treat as [mere] leaves of paper, making a show of them the while you conceal [so] much – although you have been taught [by it] what neither you nor your forefathers had ever known?’ Say: ‘God [has revealed that divine writ]!” – and then leave them to play at their vain talk..’”

6:146 Jews involved in “evildoing”

“And [only] unto those who followed the Jewish faith did We forbid all beasts that have claws; and We forbade unto them the fat of both oxen and sheep, excepting that which is in their backs or entrails or that which is within the bone: thus did We requite them for their evildoing – for, behold, We are true to Our word!”

7:166 Jews are apes

“And then, when they disdainfully persisted in doing what they had been forbidden to do, We said unto them: ‘Be as apes despicable!'”

9:29 Fight and subjugate the Jews and Christians

“[And] fight against those who – despite having been vouchsafed revelation [aforetime] – do not [truly] believe either in God or the Last Day, and do not consider forbidden that which God and His Apostle have forbidden, and do not follow the religion of truth [which God has enjoined upon them] till they [agree to] pay the exemption tax with a willing hand, after having been humbled [in war].”

9:30 Jews and Christians to be destroyed by Allah

“And the Jews say, ‘Ezra is God’s son,'” while the Christians say, ‘The Christ is God’s son.’ Such are the sayings which they utter with their mouths, following in spirit assertions made in earlier times by people who denied the truth! [They deserve the imprecation:] ‘May God destroy them!’ How perverted are their minds!”

9:31 Jews and Christians have taken their clergy and holy men as lords

“They have taken their rabbis and their monks – as well as the Christ, son of Mary – for their lords beside God, although they had been bidden to worship none but the One God, save whom there is no deity: the One who is utterly remote, in His limitless glory, from anything to which they may ascribe a share in His divinity!”

62:6-7 Jews are evildoers who should long for death

“Say: ‘O you who follow the Jewish faith! If you claim that you [alone] are close to God, to the exclusion of all other people, then you should be longing for death – if what you say is true!’ But never will they long for it, because [they are aware] of what their hands have wrought in this world; and God has full knowledge of evildoers.”

98:6 Jews and Christians who reject Islam are the worst of creatures

“Verily, those who [despite all evidence] are bent on denying the truth – [be they] from among the followers of earlier revelation or from among those who ascribe divinity to aught beside God – will find themselves in the fire of hell, therein to abide: they are the worst of all creatures.”

(WASHINGTON, D.C., 5/15/14) — The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, today said it will offer a free copy of Islam’s holy text, the Quran, to anyone who wishes to verify the inaccuracy of a new anti-Muslim bus advertisement in Washington, D.C….

Then follows the usual deceptive and defamatory litany of charges against Geller and her organization. One less common one named is that Geller said she used the Qur’an as a doorstop. She comments: “That’s from an article I wrote in the American Thinker. I was mocking the giant qurans that Hamas-CAIR gives out to inquirers. They actually had Michael Ghouse give me one on the set of Hannity. The article explains how even the quran that Hamas-CAIR gives out doesn’t succeed in whitewashing Islam’s violent and supremacist teachings. And anyway, so what? I am not a Muslim. I do not adhere to sharia rules governing how they handle the book they think is holy. Instead of making mountains out of molehills, when will they work to reform the quran’s hateful and violent texts? When will they denounce the rising tide of quran-based Islamic Jew-hatred?”

That’s from an article I wrote in the American Thinker. I was mocking the giant qurans that Hamas-CAIR gives out to inquirers. They actually had Michael Ghouse give me one on the set of Hannity. The article explains how even the quran that Hamas-CAIR gives out doesn’t succeed in whitewashing Islam’s violent and supremacist teachings. And anyway, so what? I am not a Muslim. I do not adhere to sharia rules governing how they handle the book they think is holy. Instead of making mountains out of molehills, when will they work to reform the quran’s hateful and violent texts? When will they denounce the rising tide of quran-based Islamic Jew-hatred? – See more at: http://pamelageller.com/2013/01/hamas-cair-libels-pamela-geller-in-the-baltimore-sun.html/#sthash.gZI6BAgs.dpuf

That’s from an article I wrote in the American Thinker. I was mocking the giant qurans that Hamas-CAIR gives out to inquirers. They actually had Michael Ghouse give me one on the set of Hannity. The article explains how even the quran that Hamas-CAIR gives out doesn’t succeed in whitewashing Islam’s violent and supremacist teachings. And anyway, so what? I am not a Muslim. I do not adhere to sharia rules governing how they handle the book they think is holy. Instead of making mountains out of molehills, when will they work to reform the quran’s hateful and violent texts? When will they denounce the rising tide of quran-based Islamic Jew-hatred? – See more at: http://pamelageller.com/2013/01/hamas-cair-libels-pamela-geller-in-the-baltimore-sun.html/#sthash.gZI6BAgs.dpuf

Anyway, this is followed by:

“We encourage those who view Geller’s false and inflammatory ads to visit CAIR’s ‘Explore the Quran’ website to request a free copy of the Quran so they can read it for themselves,” said CAIR National Executive Director Nihad Awad. “Anyone who reads the Quran will discover that it honors Jews and Christians for believing in one God and calls on all believers to live in peace and harmony.”

Those wishing to obtain a free Quran should visit: www.explorethequran.com/request-a-quran/american-public.html

Awad said people who read the Quran would come across verses such as:

“Verily, those who have attained to faith [in this divine writ], as well as those who follow the Jewish faith, and the Christians, and the Sabians – all who believe in God and the Last Day and do righteous deeds – shall have their reward with their Sustainer; and no fear need they have, and neither shall they grieve.” (2:62)

“Say: ‘We believe in God, and in that which has been bestowed from on high upon us, and that which has been bestowed upon Abraham and Ishmael and Isaac and Jacob and their descendants, and that which has been vouchsafed to Moses and Jesus; and that which has been vouchsafed to all the [other] prophets by their Sustainer: we make no distinction between any of them. And it is unto Him that we surrender ourselves.'” (2:136)

“O humankind! Behold, We have created you all out of a male and a female, and have made you into nations and tribes, so that you might come to know one another. Verily, the noblest of you in the sight of God is the one who is most deeply conscious of Him. Behold, God is all-knowing, all-aware.” (49:13)

Shish! If you go to the website you’ll find they want you to pay for the damn thing. Where I live it’s easier (and a lot cheaper) to check it out at the public library. Thing is, you gotta actually read the crap to get the full flavor of Islam, but it’s so boring that to read it is to doze off every 15 minutes or so.

Trouble is, even those who buy one will never read it thoroughly or put forth the effort necessary to understand it. Indeed, how many Christians with bibles in their home have actually read them and understand the implications of, say, the Old Testament?

If it is the same one I got from CAIR, it is huge, and had more notes to “explain” the verses than verses themselves. I think mine cost me 8 dollars, just the cost of shipping it.
I figured I did good in getting them to send an expensive hard bound book to me without my actually paying for the book. It means they wasted a few dollars on me. There are worse things the money could have gone towards.
It is not my only copy of the quran, and definitely not the easiest read because of all the pages of explanation, but it beats a phone book if a toddler needs a booster seat.

Trouble is to pay the postage on the free book you gotta give ’em your credit card #. My trust of Muslims just ain’t that good. I mean, they steal stuff, you know. Like girls and random kufars and ‘most any old stuff. Like that.

Yes, I got that one free from cair years ago and some pages have more footnotes than verses from mo. It was very annoying to start reading along and be interrupted by some incoherent printed diatribe. It ended up in a dumpster, even though it came with an instruction sheet which said do not place on floor or read it in the bathroom lol.

Voltaire referred to it as “this unintelligible book, every page of which makes commonsense shudder”. That was in a letter to Frederick II of Prussia, to whom Voltaire was sending a copy of his play “Mahomet: or, Fanaticism”.

I understand that, Champ. I just use it as a stir to muslims who are always erroneously claiming that the Bible speaks of their “prophet”. Ishmael was the progenitor of the Arab race. God has His reasons….God bless.

“CAIR’s staff just is not very smart — there must be some IQ-level hiring ceiling that they will not reveal…”

Muslims are not very smart in the first place and neither are Arabs. (They are street-smart in a low-rate kind of way, but that’s a different thing altogether.) There’s simply nothing that CAIR can do – if they want to continue employing Muslims, they’ll have to settle for the bad human material that their community puts out.

Actually, CAIR may be being clever here; as other commenters above have noted, the CAIR Koran is replete and riddled with footnoted explanations on nearly every page, often dwarfing and swamping the actual text. I bet if someone did a word count they would find that the explanatory material exceeds the actual text. The purpose of the footnote explanations is two-fold:

1) to pad and whitewash the obvious purport of the text, in both its gibberish, and (where it actually is coherent) in its appallingly hateful and violent nature;

and

2) to distract the reader from the text, bog his attention down, wear his patience down with minutiae, render the reading tedious.

Few will have the patience and resolve to pick through those Korans in detail to glean the actual purport. Even an unadulterated “clean” copy of the Koran is tedious enough to read, let alone the CAIR one. Most will come away thinking, “Oh yeah, another ancient dusty religious text, with strange and seemingly harsh verses here and there — just like some of those books in the Old Testament which, I mean, you know, Christians don’t seem to care about anymore either…”

Undoubtedly true. That is why they are giving them away. Obscure the text with their “explanation” and win hearts and minds.
Which is why the suggestion for Robert to commission a version “explaining” how the peaceful verses have been abrogated by later verses is a wonderful idea.
I know I would buy one, much easier than trying to remember all those verses and numbers in one’s head. I am not good at that these days, even with my own holy books.

Just the quran? Where is the free copy of the biography of muhammad, so readers can understand the context that lead muhammad to inven… i mean, the context where muhammad “received” his “revelations”? And where are the collections of ahadith? What happens if a reader notices that the five pillars of islam aren’t in the quran? It’s funny because muslims who reject the sunnah and the ahadith are considered heretics, and yet CAIR is giving out qurans like it’s the source of all islamic doctrine.

Sahih Bukhari, Volume 2, Book 23, Number 438:
Narrated Anas: A young Jewish boy used to serve the Prophet and he became sick. So the Prophet went to visit him. He sat near his head and asked him to embrace Islam. The boy looked at his father, who was sitting there; the latter told him to obey Abu-l-Qasim and the boy embraced Islam. The Prophet came out saying: “Praises be to Allah Who saved the boy from the Hell-fire.”

Ishaq, p. 368 Muhammad orders the assassination of Ka’b bin Ashraf, a Jew who composed lyrics considered “insulting” by Muhammad:

(Maslama and his associates take up the task and then deceived Ka’b, gaining his confidence, then killed him)
“…they smote him, and their swords clashed over him with no effect. Muhammad b. Maslama said, ‘I remembered my dagger when I saw that our swords were useless, and I seized it. Meanwhile the enemy of God had made such a noise that every fort around us was showing a light. I thrust it into the lower part of his body, then I bore down upon it until I reached his genitals, and the enemy of God fell to the ground….Our attack upon God’s enemy cast terror among the Jews, and there was no Jew in Medina who did not fear for his life.’
Ka’b b. Malik said:
‘Of them Ka’b was left prostrate there
(After his fall al-Nadir were brought low).
Sword in hand we cut him down
By Muhammad’s order when he sent secretly by night
Ka’b’s brother to go to Ka’b.He beguiled him and brought him down with guile
Mahmud was trustworthy, bold.’
Hassan b. Thabit, mentioning the killing of Ka’b and of Sallam b. Abu’l-Huqayq, said:
‘What a fine band you met, O Ibnu’l-Huqayq,
And you too, Ibnu’l-Ashraf,
Travelling by night with their light swords
Bold as lions in their jungle lair
Until they came to you in your quarter
And made you taste death with their deadly swords,
Seeking victory for the religion of their prophet
Counting their lives and their wealth as nothing.'”

Tabari VII:97 “The morning after the murder of Ashraf, the Prophet declared, ‘Kill any Jew who falls under your power.’”
Ishaq, p. 369“The apostle said, ‘Kill any Jew who falls under your power.’ Thereupon Muhayyisa b. Mas’ud leapt upon Ibn Sunayna, a Jewish merchant with whom they had social and business relations, and killed him. Huwayyisa was not a Muslim at the time though he was the elder brother. When Muhayyisa killed him Huwayyisa began to beat him saying, ‘You enemy of God, did you kill him when much fat on your belly comes from his wealth?’ Muhayyisa answered, ‘Had the one who ordered me to kill him ordered me to kill you I would have cut your head off.’ He said that this was the beginning of Huwayyisa’s acceptance of Islam. The other replied, ‘By God, if Muhammad had ordered you to kill me you would have killed me?’ He said, ‘Yes, by God, had he ordered me to cut off your head I would have done so.’ He exclaimed, ‘By God, a religion that can bring you to this is marvellous!’ and he became a Muslim.”

Sahih Muslim, Book 041, Number 6985.
“Abu Huraira reported Allah’s Messenger (may peace be upon him) as saying: The last hour would not come unless the Muslims will fight against the Jews and the Muslims would kill them until the Jews would hide themselves behind a stone or a tree and a stone or a tree would say: Muslim, or the servant of Allah, there is a Jew behind me; come and kill him; but the tree Gharqad would not say, for it is the tree of the Jews.”

Sahih Bukhari, Volume 4, Book 52, Number 177.
Narrated Abu Huraira:
Allah’s Apostle said, “The Hour will not be established until you fight with the Jews, and the stone behind which a Jew will be hiding will say. “O Muslim! There is a Jew hiding behind me, so kill him.”

Sahih Muslim, Book 19, Number 4366: Narrated Umar ibn al-Khattab:”Umar heard the Messenger of Allah (peace be upon him) say: ‘I will expel the Jews and Christians from the Arabian Peninsula and will not leave any but Muslims.'”

Sahih Bukhari, Volume 3, Book 47, Number 786:
Narrated Anas bin Malik:
A Jewess brought a poisoned (cooked) sheep for the Prophet who ate from it. She was brought to the Prophet and he was asked, “Shall we kill her?” He said, “No.” I continued to see the effect of the poison on the palate of the mouth of Allah’s Apostle.

Sahih Muslim, Book 019, Number 4363:
It has been narrated on the authority of Abu Huraira who said: We were (sitting) in the mosque when the Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) came to us and said: (Let us) go to the Jews. We went out with him until we came to them. The Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) stood up and called out to them (saying): O ye assembly of Jews, accept Islam (and) you will be safe. They said: Abu’l-Qasim, you have communicated (God’s Message to us). The Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) said: I want this (i. e. you should admit that God’s Message has been communicated to you), accept Islam and you would be safe. They said: Abu’l-Qisim, you have communicated (Allah’s Message). The Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) said: I want this… – He said to them (the same words) the third time (and on getting the same reply) he added: You should know that the earth belongs to Allah and His Apostle, and I wish that I should expel you from this land. Those of you who have any property with them should sell it, otherwise they should know that the earth belongs to Allah and His Apostle (and they may have to go away leaving everything behind).

Sahih Muslim, Book 019, Number 4364:
It has been narrated on the authority of Ibn Umar that the Jews of Banu Nadir and Banu Quraizi fought against the Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) who expelled Banu Nadir, and allowed Quraiza to stay on, and granted favour to them until they too fought against him. Then he killed their men, and distributed their women, children and properties among the Muslims, except that some of them had joined the Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) who granted them security. They embraced Islam. The Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) turned out all the Jews of Medina. Banu Qainuqa’ (the tribe of ‘Abdullah b. Salim) and the Jews of Banu Haritha and every other Jew who was in Medina.

Ishaq, p. 461. (Muhammad gets a message from Allah, relayed through Gabriel, to attack the Banu Qurayza Jews).
“When the apostle approached their forts he said, ‘You brothers of monkeys, has God disgraced you and brought vengeance upon you?’ They replied, ‘O Abu’ l-Qasim, you are not a barabarous person.'”
[…] “The apostle beseiged them for twenty-five nights until they were sore pressed and God cast terror into their hearts.”

Ishaq, pp. 463-464.
“When Sa’d reached the apostle and the Muslims the apostle told them to get up and greet their leader. The muhajirs of Quraysh thought that the apostle meant the Ansar, while the latter thought that he meant everyone, so they got up and said ‘O Abu Amr, the apostle has entrusted to you the affair of your allies that you give judgement concerning them.’ Sa’d asked, ‘Do you covenant by Allah that you accept the judgement I pronounce on them?’ They said Yes, and he said, ‘And is it incumbent on the one who is here?’ (looking) in the direction of the apostle not mentioning him out of respect, and the apostle answered Yes. Sa’d said, ‘Then I give judgement that the men should be killed, the property divided, and the women and children taken as captives.’
‘Asim b. ‘Umar b. Qatada told me from ‘Abdu’l-Rahman b. ‘Amr b. Sa’d b. Mu’adh from ‘Alqama b. Waqqas al-Laythi that the apostle said to Sa’d, ‘You have given the judgement of Allah above the seven heavens.’
Then they surrendered, and the apostle confined them in Medina in the quarter of d. al-Harith, a woman of B. al-Najjar. Then the apostle went out to the market of Medina (which is still its market today) and dug trenches in it. Then he sent for them and struck off their heads in those trenches as they were brought out to him in batches. Among them was the enemy of Allah Huyayy b. Akhtab and Ka’b b. Asad their chief. There were 600 or 700 in all, though some put the figure as high as 800 or 900. As they were taken out in batches to the apostle they asked Ka’b what he thought would be done with them. He replied, ‘Will you never understand? Don’t you see that the summoner never stops and those who are taken away do not return? By Allah it is death!’ This went on until the apostle made an end of them.”

Ishaq, p. 466.
“The the apostle divided the property, wives, and children of B. Qurayza among the Muslims, and he made it known on that day the shares of horse and men, and took out the fifth. A horseman got three shares, two for the horse and one for his rider. A man without a horse got one share. On the day of B. Qurayza there were thirty-six horses. It was the first booty on which lots were cast and the fifth was taken. According to its precedent and what the apostle did the divisions were made, and it remained the custom for raids.
Then the apostle sent Sa’d b. Zayd al-Ansari brother of b. ‘Abdu’l-Ashal with some of the captive women of B. Qurayza to Najd and he sold them for horses and weapons.
The apostle had chosen one of the women for himself, Rayhana d. ‘Amr b. Khunafa, one of the women of B. ‘Amr b. Qurayza, and she remained with him until she died, in his power. The apostle had proposed to marry her and put the veil on her, but she said: ‘Nay, leave me in your power, for that will be easy for me and you.’ So he left her. She had shown repugnance toward Islam when she was captured and clung to Judaism. So the apostle put her aside and felt some displeasure. While he was with his companions he heard the sound of sandals behind him and said, ‘This is Tha’laba b. Sa’ya coming to give me the good news of Rayhana’s acceptance of Islam’ and he came up to announce the fact. This gave him pleasure.”

“Sahih Muslim, Chapter 8: THROWING OF NON-BELIEVERS IN HELL-FIRE FOR BELIEVERS AS DIVINE GRACE AND MERCY”

Sahih Muslim, Book 037, Number 6665:
Abu Musa’ reported that Allah’s Messenger (may peace be upon him) said: When it will be the Day of Resurrection Allah would deliver to every Muslim a Jew or a Christian and say: That is your rescue from Hell-Fire.

Sahih Muslim, Book 037, Number 6666:
Abu Burda reported on the authority of his father that Allah’s Apostle (may peace be upon him) said: No Muslim would die but Allah would admit in his stead a Jew or a Christian in Hell-Fire. ‘Umar b. Abd al-‘Aziz took an oath: By One besides Whom there is no god but He, thrice that his father had narrated that to him from Allah’s Messenger (may peace be upon him).

“Judgment Day will not come before the Muslims fight the Jews, and the Jews will hide behind the rocks and the trees, but the rocks and the trees will say: Oh Muslim , oh servant of Allah, there is a Jew behind me, come and kill him…”

The problem is they still ask you to pay for the damned thing by covering the shipping cost. We simply have to get used to the thought that what’s “free”to us is a different kind of “free” to Muslims – just like our understanding of “slander” is light years away from their perception of “slander”.

I am sure it will be sanitized English translation of Quran in which you won’t find any reference to the murderous Medina passages, and ayat al sayyaf. Then CAIR will proclaim see for yourself how peaceful are allah’s teachings!!

It is the same version I obtained–for free at the time–from CAIR, and it makes no bones about WHY a thief’s hand(s) must be amputated–and other outrageous barbarities that are part and parcel of a “complete way of life” which has no legitimate place in any democracy; ours included.

It’s title backfires on CAIR–as the message is ugly and an eye opener.

The only good Jew or Christian is one that has become a Muslim. That is because there is no legitimate Jewish or Christian religion after the coming of Muhammad. Ibn Kathir’s commentary on 2:62 is:
(Verily, those who believe and those who are Jews and Christians, and Sabians, whoever believes in Allah and the Last Day) that Allah revealed the following Ayah afterward

(And whoever seeks religion other than Islam, it will never be accepted of him, and in the Hereafter he will be one of the losers) (3:85).

This statement by Ibn`Abbas indicates that Allah does not accept any deed or work from anyone, unless it conforms to the Law of Muhammad that is, after Allah sent Muhammad . Before that, every person who followed the guidance of his own Prophet was on the correct path, following the correct guidance and was saved.”

This cannot be more clear. After Muhammad nothing is accepted by Allah unless it follows the law of Muhammad. The older Biblical prophets can qualify as Believers on the straight path because Islam teaches they were really Muslims (before the corruption of the Bible as we know it). This is no help for you and I. The whole point of Islam is to bring everybody back into Islam, how does this square with the co-existence?

The Qur’an clearly teaches the Jews are the worst enemies of Muslims and will be until the Last Day . It was Muhammad who launched the violence and war against the Jews, is that sunnah or not Nihad Awad? Does Nihad Awad say that 5:51 is abrogated and no longer is true for Muslims today, take not the Jews or Christians as friends or helpers or you are one of them and apostate? Will Nihad Awad say the Qur’anic doctrine of loyalty and enmity, al wala wa al baraa, is null and void today and we can and should all live as equals? This is from the orthodox website Islam-qa with Sheikh Muhammad Salih Al-Munajjid: “One of the basic principles of belief in Islam is that we must believe that every Jew Christian or other person who does not enter Islam is a kafir…and regarded as enemies of Allah, His Messenger and the believers, and that they are the people of Hell.” Will Nihad Awad call this false and inflammatory?

2:136 is part of the Qur’anic appropriation of all the Jewish and Biblical prophets. They were all Muslims. 3:84 makes a similar statement followed by 3:85 : (84. Say: “We believe in Allah and in what has been sent down to us, and what was sent down to Ibrahim, Isma`il, Ishaq, Ya`qub and Al-Asbat, and what was given to Musa, `Isa and the Prophets from their Lord. We make no distinction between one another among them and to Him (Allah) we have submitted.”) (85. And whoever seeks a religion other than Islam, it will never be accepted of him, and in the Hereafter he will be one of the losers.)” As 3:19 says
“the religion with Allah is Islam (he recognizes no other).” Jesus (Isa) too is only a prophet of Islam who’s purpose is to tell of a prophet to come “glad tidings of a messenger to come after me, whose name shall be Ahmad(Muhammad).” 61:6. Muslims are taught the original Torah and Gospel were identical with Islam before being corrupted. This is the only sense in which Islam “honors” Jews and Christians.

I recommend that, if he has the time, Robert should arrange for a free downloadable PDF translation of the koran be posted on JW with each abrogated verse followed, for better effect, IN FULL by the abrogating verse, plus the Islamic authority for each abrogation.

Admittedly, this would entail the: “verse of the sword” appearing, IN FULL, 126 times, but it would be better that it appear in full as the uneducated reader might not understand what is meant by a cryptic reference to: “verse of the sword”.

I also suggest that the text for the abrogated verse appear in blue; the abrogating verse appear in dark red; together with a brief explanatory comment, and the remainder of the book as normal black text.

I’ve suggested something like this to JW before. I’m heartily sick of some of my more naïve friends quoting the abrogated verse 109.6, “to you be your way, and to me mine” abrogated by – you guessed it, 9.5. The “slay them wherever you find them” verse.

I would even be happy to purchase several copies of such an honest koran if someone would dare to publish it. I have several people in mind who need to browse through such a book for a bit of enlightenment about the murder cult.

In a sense, this is the most important part of Ahem’s fine idea; and the Islamic authority should be two-fold: traditional and current today. The reason for the latter is that often in Islam a traditional authority goes back at best to the 13th century or something. That by itself is going to elicit semi-conscious waffling on the part of the non-Muslim when reading the text, causing him or her to think “well, but how relevant is this today to the nice Muslims I know, who are probably representative of most Muslims around the world…?”

Rob Spencer, you should run another ad campaign with these anti-Jew- and Christian koran verses to destroy the narrative of CAIR. And while you’re at it, also run a campaign with verses promoting slavery in islam.

As the saying goes, “it’s good to know what tunes the devil is playing”
but i believe the devil resides in all religions, which divide humanity. I don’t really understand why one should think that any solution is to be found in any religious book, which are, all, way out of date, and full of violence and illogicalities.
One absorbs that stuff into one’s mind, then no wonder the world is a mess.

Free Qurans? Are they in Arabic? I was assured by a Mahoundian Quran only Doctor, that my English Quran was no good because it was loaded with translation errors. When I asked why the pious were printing and distributing fakes, that are wrong or incomplete, he had no answer.

That’s exactly what I was thinking when that Pastor was burning Qur’an a couple of years ago.

The biggest problem is we in the free world don’t take jihad seriously. Why? Because they (we) don’t know enough about Islam’s ideology, motivation, and commitment most Muslim’s have toward their God Allah, and the prophet Muhammad, and the means to subjugate the world under Islamic rule, Sharia Law, and the Qur’an. All most of us ever hear is that Islam is ‘the religion of peace’.

It’s time the free world wake up and learn the truth about Islam. Including what’s inside the Qur’an, and the Hadith. Stop asking Muslims if Islam is really a peaceful religion. That is not only ignorant, but also foolish. I mean what is the Muslim suppose to say? No Muslim will ever admit the true ideology of Islam. They are too clever for that.

5:33 Literal:But (the) reward (of) those who embattle/fight God and His messenger, and they strive/endeavor in the earth/Planet Earth corruption/disorder , that they be killed or they be crucified , or their hands and their feet be cut off from opposites, or they be expelled/exiled from the land, that (is) for them shame/scandal/disgrace in the present world, and for them in the end (other life is) a great torture.

Free_Minds:The recompense of those who fight God and His messenger, and seek to make corruption in the land, is that they will be killed or crucified or that their hands and feet be cut off from alternate sides or that they be banished from the land; that is a disgrace for them in this world and in the Hereafter they will have a great retribution.

Khalifa:The just retribution for those who fight GOD and His messenger, and commit horrendous crimes, is to be killed, or crucified, or to have their hands and feet cut off on alternate sides, or to be banished from the land. This is to humiliate them in this life, then they suffer a far worse retribution in the Hereafter.

Yusuf_Ali:The punishment of those who wage war against Allah and His Messenger, and strive with might and main for mischief through the land is: execution, or crucifixion, or the cutting off of hands and feet from opposite sides, or exile from the land: that is their disgrace in this world, and a heavy punishment is theirs in the Hereafter;

Shakir:The punishment of those who wage war against Allah and His messenger and strive to make mischief in the land is only this, that they should be murdered or crucified or their hands and their feet should be cut off on opposite sides or they should be imprisoned; this shall be as a disgrace for them in this world, and in the hereafter they shall have a grievous chastisement,

Pickthal:The only reward of those who make war upon Allah and His messenger and strive after corruption in the land will be that they will be killed or crucified, or have their hands and feet on alternate sides cut off, or will be expelled out of the land. Such will be their degradation in the world, and in the Hereafter theirs will be an awful doom;

Arberry:This is the recompense of those who fight against God and His Messenger, and hasten about the earth, to do corruption there: they shall be slaughtered, or crucified, or their hands and feet shall alternately be struck off; or they shall be banished from the land. That is a degradation for them in this world; and in the world to come awaits them a mighty chastisement,

George_Sale:But the recompense of those who fight against God and his Apostle, and study to act corruptly in the earth, shall be, that they shall be slain, or crucified, or have their hands and their feet cut off on the opposite sides, or be banished the land. This shall be their disgrace in this world, and in the next world they shall suffer a grievous punishment;

Hilali_Khan:The recompense of those who wage war against Allah and His Messenger and do mischief in the land is only that they shall be killed or crucified or their hands and their feet be cut off on the opposite sides, or be exiled from the land. That is their disgrace in this world, and a great torment is theirs in the Hereafter.

Malik:The punishment for those who wage war against Allah and His Messenger and strive to create mischief in the land is death or crucifixion or the cutting off their hands and feet from opposite sides or exile from the land based on the gravity of their offense. This will be their humiliation in this world and in the Hereafter they will have grievous punishment,

Maulana_Ali:The only punishment of those who wage war against Allah and His Messenger and strive to make mischief in the land is that they should be murdered, or crucified, or their hands and their feet should be cut off on opposite sides, or they should be imprisoned. This shall be a disgrace for them in this world, and in the Hereafter they shall have a grievous chastisement,

QXP:The just punishment for people who make war on Allah and His Messenger and commit bloody crimes on earth, is being dispensed by the Divine Law of Requital. They are being slain, crucified, immobilized in great numbers, or are being entirely banished from the face of the earth. Such is their disgrace in this world, and an awful suffering awaits them in the Hereafter. (The use of present tense in this verse indicates that it is not a decree of Law. In (7:124) the use of ‘qat’a’ pertains to a threat in the future tense, and then it emanates from Pharaoh, tyranny personified. Only the Divine System of life can ensure peace and security in the world (2:27), (2:257), (3:147), (4:125), (26:89)).

Sarwar:The only proper recompense for those who fight against God and His Messenger and try to spread evil in the land is to be killed, crucified, or either to have one of their hands and feet cut from the opposite side or to be sent into exile. These are to disgrace them in this life and they will suffer a great torment in the life hereafter.

http://www.qtafsir.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=784&Itemid=60 (The recompense of those who wage war against Allah and His Messenger and do mischief in the land is only that they shall be killed or crucified or their hands and their feet be cut off on the opposite sides, or be exiled from the land.) `Wage war’ mentioned here means, oppose and contradict, and it includes disbelief, blocking roads and spreading fear in the fairways. Mischief in the land refers to various types of evil. Ibn Jarir recorded that `Ikrimah and Al-Hasan Al-Basri said that the Ayat,

“Verily, those who have attained to faith [in this divine writ], as well as those who follow the Jewish faith, and the Christians, and the Sabians – all who believe in God and the Last Day and do righteous deeds – shall have their reward with their Sustainer; and no fear need they have, and neither shall they grieve.” (2:62)

Notice the problems here? For one, it doesn’t say anything about Jews and Christians (and Sabians) who reject Islam’s version of God, the Last Day, Islam’s prophet, and so on. Qur’an 9:29-35 does, however, say something about Jews and Christians who reject Islam, Muhammad, and Islamic rule, namely that they should be killed and subjugated, and that even Allah himself fights them (thus negating the apologist spin on 2:62). So does 48:13:
“And so for him who believeth not in Allah and His messenger – Lo! We have prepared a flame for disbelievers.”

That is, CAIR is trying to smoke the general non-Muslim public with an ambiguous verse ignoring the Qur’an’s numerous other verses on this issue and by framing it with a modern non-Muslim interpretation, when there are clear verses telling Muslims how they ought to deal with and regard Christians and Jews who reject Islam, Muhammad, and Islamic rule.

For another, 2:62 doesn’t say anything about the rest of the world’s population, who are not Muslims, Christians (and Sabians), or Jews. (That, of course, is irrelevant to CAIR’s myopic ad hoc attempt to make the Qur’an seem Jewish-friendly in this particular case–they evidently don’t care if they condemn the rest of humanity to hell, just so long as they can score this one particular propaganda point!). But in fact the Qur’an says plainly and categorically that Islam is the only acceptable religion (3:85). It says Jews and Christians (People of the Book) who disbelieve in Islam are the worst of created beings (98:6), whereas Muslims are the best of created beings (98:7).

This is confirmed in other Quranic verses, e.g.,
4:115 “And whoso opposeth the messenger after the guidance (of Allah) hath been manifested unto him, and followeth other than the believer’s way, We appoint for him that unto which he himself hath turned, and expose him unto hell – a hapless journey’s end!”

CAIR’s next example:
“Say: ‘We believe in God, and in that which has been bestowed from on high upon us, and that which has been bestowed upon Abraham and Ishmael and Isaac and Jacob and their descendants, and that which has been vouchsafed to Moses and Jesus; and that which has been vouchsafed to all the [other] prophets by their Sustainer: we make no distinction between any of them. And it is unto Him that we surrender ourselves.’” (2:136)

Interesting that this verse actually excludes the vast majority of Jews by mentioning the belief in Jesus as an essential aspect of belief. Contra CAIR’s spin, 2:136 says nothing about accepting Jews or anyone else who rejects Islam. What CAIR doesn’t tell you is that Islam has its own version of the previous religions and their prophets. Jesus, Abraham, Moses, et al., are all Muslims according to the Qur’an, and the followers of the previous religions are misguided, astray, have earned the wrath of Allah, etc., unless they accept Islam. According to the Qur’an, the real Christians are actually “Muslims”:

5:111. And when I inspired the disciples, (saying): Believe in Me and in My messenger, they said: We believe. Bear witness that we have surrendered (unto Thee) “we are muslims.”

The Qur’an claims that the Jews killed the prophets. The very next verse in the passage, 2:137, says that people must believe as Muhammad believes; i.e., once again, they need to believe in Islam, the Qur’an, and Muhammad as a prophet.

The entire passage is a diatribe against Christians and Jews, chiding them to get with the program and follow Muhammad and see things as he sees things:
2:135 “And they say: Be Jews or Christians, then ye will be rightly guided. Say (unto them, O Muhammad): Nay, but (we follow) the religion of Abraham, the upright, and he was not of the idolaters.
2:136. Say (O Muslims): We believe in Allah and that which is revealed unto us and that which was revealed unto Abraham, and Ishmael, and Isaac, and Jacob, and the tribes, and that which Moses and Jesus received, and that which the prophets received from their Lord. We make no distinction between any of them, and unto Him we have surrendered.
2:137. And if they believe in the like of that which ye believe, then are they rightly guided. But if they turn away, then are they in schism, and Allah will suffice thee (for defence) against them. He is the Hearer, the Knower.
2:138. (We take our) colour from Allah, and who is better than Allah at colouring. We are His worshippers.
2:139. Say (unto the People of the Scripture): Dispute ye with us concerning Allah when He is our Lord and your Lord? Ours are our works and yours your works. We look to Him alone.
2:140. Or say ye that Abraham, and Ishmael, and Isaac, and Jacob, and the tribes were Jews or Christians? Say: Do ye know best, or doth Allah? And who is more unjust than he who hideth a testimony which he hath received from Allah? Allah is not unaware of what ye do.”

CAIR’s last example quoted:
“O humankind! Behold, We have created you all out of a male and a female, and have made you into nations and tribes, so that you might come to know one another. Verily, the noblest of you in the sight of God is the one who is most deeply conscious of Him. Behold, God is all-knowing, all-aware.” (49:13)

Again, this says nothing about how Muslims should treat Jews or whether or not they are acceptable as believers if they reject Islam and Muhammad. Follow along to 49:15, the Qur’an says the true believers are only those who believe in Allah and Muhammad and who strive with their wealth and their lives in the cause of Allah.

48:13. “And so for him who believeth not in Allah and His messenger – Lo! We have prepared a flame for disbelievers.”

“Interesting that this verse [2:62] actually excludes the vast majority of Jews by mentioning the belief in Jesus as an essential aspect of belief.”
–and of course it is a shot against Christians as well, because the Quran says that Jesus is a prophet, not the son of God.

Grimly hilarious. Anyone who takes the text of the Qur’an as a *counter* to claims that Islam is antisemitic is either an utter fool, a hopeless ignoramus (and happy to remain so), or a cringing dhimmi.

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